Internment Locations
Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island
Transferred to Mainland: January 1943
Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 260 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.
Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas
February 1943 - May 1944
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
May 1944
Died in Camp: May 1944
Tule Lake Segregation Center, California
Hikotaro Komori arrived in Hawaii from his native Wakayama Prefecture when he was 19 years old. He married Tsuneko Hiraoka of Ewa, Oahu, and together they reared six children. Komori worked as a fisherman for twenty years before the war.
In May 1944, shortly after the family's arrival at Tule Lake, Komori died following a long illness. His family was transferred to the Manzanar Concentration Camp.